The Northern Maritime Corridor is a sea based corridor aiming at attracting cargo from road to sea in an intermodal transport chain. In a long-term perspective the NMC?s ambition is to be defined as a Motorway of the Sea, linking Motorways of the Western Union and the Baltic Sea together. The first NMC project has already started a process of promoting the Northern Maritime Corridor as Motorway of the Sea. Its successful achievements in that matter have stimulated a need to continue the work. NMC II has been set up as a follow-up project to deal with those issues.